Mirror decorating and illuminating device.



No. 744,507. PATRNTRD NOV. r17, 1903.

s. G. DOHRRTY. MIRROR DECORATINGAND ILLUMjINfATING DEVICE.- -APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 12. 1902. N0 MODEL. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

j rgi s PATRNTRD Nov. 17, 1903.

s.- G. DOHRRTY. 'Y l MIRROR DECORATING l.RR-D ILLUMINATING yDRVLGR.

VAPILIOATION FILED JUNE 12. 1902.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

' N0 MODEL.

ali/? l w/TNESSES:

kan

ivo. @4,50%:

Patented November 17;, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

SABELLAV GERTRUDE DOHERTY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MIRROR DECORATING AND ILLUMINATING DEVIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,507, dated November 17, 1903. Application-filed .Tune l2, 1902. Serial No. 111,338. (No model.) I

To all whom t may concern;

Be it known that I, SABELLA kGrEfvrRUDn DOHERTY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have inventeda new and Improved Mirror Decorating and Illuminating Device, of which the following is a full, clear, and eX- act description. f I' The invention relates to decorative lighting by electric lamps of the incandescent type; and its object is to provide a new and improved illuminated garland for'use on mirrors, walls, interior and exteriorvbalc'onies, and other objects 'and' arranged to heighten the ornamental effect of the object as well as provide the desired illumination of the surrounding objects.

The invention consists'of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, asV

will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure lisa face view of the improvement arranged for decorating a mirror. Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse section of the same on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3.- Fig. 3 is a sectional front elevation of the same on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. t is a rear face view of the garland, andl Fig. 5 is a face view of the reinforcing-wire of the garland-body.

The improvement,as shown in the drawings,

Ais'in the form of a garland of roses in relief,

and consists, essentially, of a body A of a suitable plastic material molded, pressed, or otherwise produced and reinforced at the back by a doubled-up wire B, having terminal hooks B', adapted to be hooked onto screweyes, staples, or like supporting devices C, secured on the frame of the mirror or other vobject D to b e decorated. As shown in Fig:

ward and outward over the glass in a graceful curve to the sides of the mirror-frame to engage with their hooks B' eyes O on the frame; but it is evident that lthe arrangement of a single or a plurality of garlands may be varied according to the object to be decorated to suit existing conditions.

The wire B is embedded in the plastic material and is formed between its ends with loops B2, extending in the walls of transverse openings A, formed in the body A and cen tral with sundry or ,all'of the roses in the garland. Eachof the openings A is adapted to receive a socket E for the bulb E of an incandescent electric lamp projecting centrally fromthe roses, at the front thereof, so that when the electric lamps are lit the light appears emanating from the roses center, thus producing a highly-ornamental decorative effect.

The insulated conducting-wires F for the electric lamps of agar-land extend along the back thereof and pass through insulated tubes G, held on the head D of the mirror or "other object l), so that convenient access is described the garlands can be readilyA attached to or removed from the object, and convenient access is had to the wires and the parts of the electric lamps for making repairs or alterations whenever deemed necessary, without disturbing the mirror.

The garlands can be cheaply manufactured,

and when in use heighten the ornamental effect of the object decorated, as well as provide the desired illumination of the framein which the object is located.

It will be seen that by the arrangement de-i scribed it is not necessary to bore holes in the glass to make yconnections between the ICO electric lamps and the feed-wire located behind the mirror, as heretofore practiced.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The combination with a mirror provided with a head having insulated tubes arranged therein, of the illuminating device therefor arranged in front of the upper part of the reflecting-surface of the mirror and consisting of a body having means for suspending the same from the mirror-frame, the body having spaced transverse apertures, electric-lamp bulbs held in said apertures and projecting from the front of the body, and conductingwires at the back of the body and connected with the lamps, the said wires extending upward and passing through the insulated tubes in the head of the mirror as set forth.

2. The combination with a mirror, provided with a head having openings therein of the illuminating device therefor arranged in front of the reflecting-surface of the mirror, and consisting of a body having hooks at its ends for engaging supports on the mirrorframe, the said body having spaced transverse apertures, sockets removably held in the apertures, lamp-bulbs fitting in the said sockets and projecting from the front thereof, and conducting-wires back of the body between the sanne and the mirrorand connected with the said sockets, the said wires extending upward and passing through the openings in the head of the mirror, as set forth.

3. The combination with a mirror having a series of openings passing through the head of the frame, of the illuminating device therefor, arranged in front of the retlecting-sur face of the mirror and consisting of a central body suspended from the head ot' the mirrorframe and hanging in front of the upper portion of the reiiecting-surface of the mirror, and side bodies shaped at their upper portions to iit against the sides of the central body at the top thereof, the said Vside bodies being also suspended from the head of the mirror-frame and extending from the central body to the sides of the mirror-frame, the said bodies having spaced transverse apertures, electric-lamp bulbs held in said apertures and projecting from the front thereof, conducting -wires at the back of the said bodies and connected with the said lamps, the said wires extending upward and passing through the openings in the head of the mirror, and a downwardly-projecting member connected with the head ofthe mirror-frame, and extending in front of the suspending devices for the said bodies and the upper part of the conducting-wires, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SABELLA GER'IRUDE DOllEllY.4

Witnesses:

ARTHUR I). CRANE, SAMUEL B. GooDALn. 

